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Bruce Chatwin
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born
May 13, 1940
in Dronfield, The United Kingdom
died
January 18, 1989
gender
male
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The Songlines
  4.02 avg rating — 2,205 ratings
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published
1987
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32 editions
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In Patagonia
  3.78 avg rating — 2,160 ratings
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published
1977
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26 editions
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On the Black Hill
3.89 avg rating — 570 ratings
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published
1982
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15 editions
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Utz
3.63 avg rating — 525 ratings
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published
1988
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19 editions
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What Am I Doing Here?
3.89 avg rating — 452 ratings
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published
1989
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17 editions
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The Viceroy of Ouidah
3.65 avg rating — 283 ratings
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published
1980
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12 editions
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Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings, 1969-1989
3.86 avg rating — 190 ratings
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published
1996
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12 editions
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Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
by Bruce Chatwin, Nicholas Shakespeare , Elizabeth Chatwin 3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings
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published
2010
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4 editions
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Nowhere Is a Place: Travels in Patagonia
by Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux 3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings
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2 editions
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Patagonia Revisited
by Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux 3.22 avg rating — 41 ratings
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1993
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8 editions
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“To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe”
― Bruce Chatwin
― Bruce Chatwin
“I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.”
― Bruce Chatwin
― Bruce Chatwin
“As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.
There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside.
The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.”
― Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside.
The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.”
― Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
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